Art & Story: The Show That Digs Deep Into The Craft Of Cartooninghttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory
Talking shop with comics creators Mark Rudolph, Kevin Cross, and Jerzy DrozdWed, 24 Aug 2011 02:22:13 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4Art & Story is a weekly podcast where two comics creators share their experiences making comics and try to wrap their brains around the larger ideas behind their chosen art form. We are published creators, we also self-publish, we make webcomics, and we lead comics workshops. You can email us at artandstory-AT-gmail-DOT-com.Mark Rudolph & Jerzy DrozdcleanMark Rudolph & Jerzy Drozdartandstory@gmail.comartandstory@gmail.com (Mark Rudolph & Jerzy Drozd)Mark Rudolph & Jerzy DrozdTalking shop with comics creators Mark Rudolph, Kevin Cross, and Jerzy Drozdcomics, webcomics, writing, art, storytelling, writing, graphic novels, comic booksArt & Story: The Show That Digs Deep Into The Craft Of Cartooninghttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpghttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory
Art & Story 196 – The Big Finalehttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2220
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2220#commentsWed, 24 Aug 2011 02:22:13 +0000Jerzyhttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2220It’s the final episode of Art & Story, and we get together for some laughs, some generous voicemails sent in by the Art & Storriors, and some news on what we’re on to next!

First we respond to a voicemail from Gerimi Burleigh, Art & Storrior #1, followed by some thoughts on letting your constituency have a say in their own involvement in your brand or identity.

We then talk about some of our new projects we plan to move onto:

Mark and Kevin will be starting a new show called Illustration Underground, which promises to be a more raw and visceral form of what you’ve been enjoying here.

Jerzy will continue with his Comics Are Great! podcast updating weekly and broadcast live from the Ann Arbor District Library, featuring a constantly-rotating roundtable of cartoonists and other visual storytellers. The show will continue to be released as an audio and video podcast.

And the whole A&S team (and more!) will be participating in a new online project called Lean Into Art, a service featuring live, interactive visual storytelling and illustration workshops. The project will kick off this November with a month-long “unconference” called 30 Classes in 30 Days!

We then take a listen to a voicemail from Jim Lujan, who offers a farewell to the show.

Then we get “meaty” one last time, taking on an email question from Storrior ec, who asks us for our thoughts on evaluating whether or not one should end a project. Fitting enough topic to close the series on!

Our deepest thanks to everyone for the support and encouragement we’ve received over the last four years. It means the world to us. And we hope you’ll follow along on our next projects! More great stuff to come!

]]>http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?feed=rss2&p=22200It's the final episode of Art & Story, and we get together for some laughs, some generous voicemails sent in by the Art & Storriors, and some news on what we're on to next! First we respond to a voicemail from Gerimi Burleigh, Art & Storrior #1,It's the final episode of Art & Story, and we get together for some laughs, some generous voicemails sent in by the Art & Storriors, and some news on what we're on to next!
First we respond to a voicemail from Gerimi Burleigh, Art & Storrior #1, followed by some thoughts on letting your constituency have a say in their own involvement in your brand or identity.
We then talk about some of our new projects we plan to move onto:
Mark and Kevin will be starting a new show called Illustration Underground, which promises to be a more raw and visceral form of what you've been enjoying here.
Jerzy will continue with his Comics Are Great! podcast updating weekly and broadcast live from the Ann Arbor District Library, featuring a constantly-rotating roundtable of cartoonists and other visual storytellers. The show will continue to be released as an audio and video podcast.
And the whole A&S team (and more!) will be participating in a new online project called Lean Into Art, a service featuring live, interactive visual storytelling and illustration workshops. The project will kick off this November with a month-long "unconference" called 30 Classes in 30 Days!
We then take a listen to a voicemail from Jim Lujan, who offers a farewell to the show.
Then we get "meaty" one last time, taking on an email question from Storrior ec, who asks us for our thoughts on evaluating whether or not one should end a project. Fitting enough topic to close the series on!
We play a few more voicemails at the end, including kind words from Calmplex, Raymond Bonilla, Jon David Guerra, and Ted Seko!
Our deepest thanks to everyone for the support and encouragement we've received over the last four years. It means the world to us. And we hope you'll follow along on our next projects! More great stuff to come!
The Art & Story Theme is written and performed by Mike Gilmore & Mike Johnston of The Northwoods Improvisors.
Audio hosting for Art & Story is provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing
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RSS FeedMark Rudolph & Jerzy Drozdclean1:22:50Art & Story 195 – The Big Announcementhttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2219
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2219#commentsWed, 17 Aug 2011 02:44:46 +0000Jerzyhttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2219[private]We start off this episode talking a bit about Kevin’s recent experience creating the Comfortable Thrashing project on the fly during his weekend at the Portland Zine Symposium, but then we move on to some rather heavy news:

First off, let us start by saying that this wasn’t a decision we came by easily. This has been the result of conversations between the three of us for the past year. We’ve weighed the pros and cons of this decision heavily, with a deep appreciation for what this will mean for the thousands of supporters we’ve enjoyed for the past four years.

As of August 24, 2011, we’re concluding our run of the weekly Art & Story podcast and the Art & Story Supreme service. Episode 195, airing on August 17, contains a full discussion on our thought process behind this decision. Episode 196 will be the final episode.

We spend the rest of the episode explaining our thought process behind the decision to end the show, sharing our plans for the future of this series of content, and hint at what’s coming next from all of us.

]]>http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?feed=rss2&p=22190[private]We start off this episode talking a bit about Kevin's recent experience creating the Comfortable Thrashing project on the fly during his weekend at the Portland Zine Symposium, but then we move on to some rather heavy news: First off,[private]We start off this episode talking a bit about Kevin's recent experience creating the Comfortable Thrashing project on the fly during his weekend at the Portland Zine Symposium, but then we move on to some rather heavy news:
First off, let us start by saying that this wasn’t a decision we came by easily. This has been the result of conversations between the three of us for the past year. We’ve weighed the pros and cons of this decision heavily, with a deep appreciation for what this will mean for the thousands of supporters we’ve enjoyed for the past four years.
As of August 24, 2011, we’re concluding our run of the weekly Art & Story podcast and the Art & Story Supreme service. Episode 195, airing on August 17, contains a full discussion on our thought process behind this decision. Episode 196 will be the final episode.
The full post with details about the show's cancellation can be found here.
We spend the rest of the episode explaining our thought process behind the decision to end the show, sharing our plans for the future of this series of content, and hint at what's coming next from all of us.
The Art & Story Theme is written and performed by Mike Gilmore & Mike Johnston of The Northwoods Improvisors.
Audio hosting for Art & Story is provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing
Follow Mark, Jerzy, & Kevin on Twitter!
Subscribe through iTunes
RSS Feed
Hotline: (262) 299-3729[/private]Mark Rudolph & Jerzy Drozdclean1:31:58ART & STORY CONCLUDES AUGUST 24, 2011http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2218
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2218#commentsWed, 17 Aug 2011 02:32:59 +0000Jerzyhttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2218[private]First off, let us start by saying that this wasn’t a decision we came by easily. This has been the result of conversations between the three of us for the past year. We’ve weighed the pros and cons of this decision heavily, with a deep appreciation for what this will mean for the thousands of supporters we’ve enjoyed for the past four years.

As of August 24, 2011, we’re concluding our run of the weekly Art & Story podcast and the Art & Story Supreme service. Episode 195, airing on August 17, contains a full discussion on our thought process behind this decision. Episode 196 will be the final episode.

We’re eternally grateful for all of the fantastic and overwhelming support we’ve received over the past years from you, both in the form of enthusiastic emails, and especially for your financial support. It’s been an absolute privilege to be invited into your lives and to participate in the community that has surrounded our mission of digging deep into the craft of cartooning. We will always be grateful to you for the experience and encouragement.

But a variety of things have been lining up to make it impossible to deliver the timely and quality product that you’ve come to expect from us. It has become increasingly difficult to schedule times where all three hosts can participate on the show. Our careers have moved in different directions. We’re all ready to take on even more ambitious projects. And as Mark states in Episode 195, we wanted to end on a high note rather than “podfade”.

But this is not an outright abandonment of the show. We’re cancelling the weekly shows and the Supreme service, yes. But we have every intention of returning to do Art & Story “Specials” down the road when we have the time to do them. We just can’t promise the same amount of content delivered in the timeframe we were capable of a year ago.

But the big question I’m sure many of you will be asking is: What does this mean for my subscription to Art & Story Supreme?

We’ve posted information in the A&S forum on how cancellations and refunds will work. Once all fees have been refunded and the final episode has aired, all of the Supreme content will be opened up to the public on this website in perpetuity.

The forum and the Storriors’ Studio will remain active for now, but Jerzy has been working on a project with Rob Stenzinger that we hope will be the next stage of evolution for the community and ethos surrounding the Art & Story podcasts. We will be announcing some plans very soon to move a lot of this functionality over to the new site, and you will all be invited to be a part of it. We sincerely hope you’ll stick around for this, as it promises to be a much more interactive and rich way of enjoying what we’ve been building through the past four years. In many ways, we see it as a logical evolutionary step for what Art & Story began.

It’s unclear what the future holds for the microcasts, but we can say this: Jerzy has every intention of continuing production of Thunder Punch Daily as a regular free show on his own website, Comics Are Great. He also produce a weekly show there, broadcast live on Wednesdays at 12:30 pm EST and collected later as an audio and video podcast. Jerzy is already in talks with Mark and Kevin about having them on occasionally as roundtable guests. Kevin is still producing the Big Illustration Party Time show, and both Mark and Jerzy will make appearances there from time to time.

This is all to say that THE BAND IS NOT BREAKING UP. We like to think of it more as a re-allocation of our resources, and aknowledging that the time has come to end one project in order to start some new, even more ambitious ones. There are no hard feelings between Mark, Kevin, and Jerzy. To reuse an analogy Kevin uses in A&S 195, we’re still friends, we’re just off to college now, and you’re going to see some new dynamics and characters entering into the fold.

A quick tally of everything we’ve made under the A&S brand revealed something surprising to us: All told, we’ve created around 1075 episodes of content! This includes the reguar show, Art & Story Alive!, Art & Story Extreme!!, the microcasts, Supreme A&S eps, and videos. One can’t even begin to think about how many hours of content are there.

It’s been a wonderful four years, and we’re looking forward to what happens next. Another heartfelt thank you to everyone who made the Art & Story shows possible.

And now we’ll be happy to answer any questions you might have.[/private]

]]>http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?feed=rss2&p=22183Thunder Punch Daily 137 – Movin’ Right Alonghttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2215
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2215#commentsSun, 14 Aug 2011 20:55:32 +0000Jerzyhttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2215Today I share some thoughts on the future of Thunder Punch Daily, given the news we broke in the forum.

]]>http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?feed=rss2&p=22150Art & Story 194 – The Big Panel Shapehttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2206
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2206#commentsThu, 28 Jul 2011 04:18:54 +0000Jerzyhttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2206[private]This week we take on a question put to us by Mark Harmon:

How do you approach the panel shapes on a page? Especially when you are working for a client who has in the script the set number of panels already. If I want to break from the “grid” system and do something a little more experimental, how do I make that work and not confuse the reader as to which panel goes first and so on?

We spend an hour or so responding with thoughts on communicating with the client, breaking a page into discrete areas of concern, and our own tastes in regards to panel borders.

]]>http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?feed=rss2&p=22060panel borders,panel composition,panel design,panel structure,storytelling[private]This week we take on a question put to us by Mark Harmon: How do you approach the panel shapes on a page? Especially when you are working for a client who has in the script the set number of panels already.[private]This week we take on a question put to us by Mark Harmon:
How do you approach the panel shapes on a page? Especially when you are working for a client who has in the script the set number of panels already. If I want to break from the "grid" system and do something a little more experimental, how do I make that work and not confuse the reader as to which panel goes first and so on?
We spend an hour or so responding with thoughts on communicating with the client, breaking a page into discrete areas of concern, and our own tastes in regards to panel borders.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Mark Harmon's books on The Illustrated Section
Radio, Mark and Kevin's new zine
The Kickstarter campaign for Mark's Dagon
The Front, Chapter 2, Page 2
Jerzy will be speaking at Ignite Great Lakes on July 30
The Art & Story Theme is written and performed by Mike Gilmore & Mike Johnston of The Northwoods Improvisors.
Audio hosting for Art & Story is provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing
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Hotline: (262) 299-3729[/private]Mark Rudolph & Jerzy Drozdclean1:10:55Thunder Punch Daily 136 – Spine Up, Spine Downhttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2202
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2202#commentsTue, 26 Jul 2011 00:41:21 +0000Jerzyhttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2202Today I share a simplified way of thinking about approaching gestures and body language in your stories. Breaking emotions into two categories and corresponding them to “spine up” and “spine down” is a slick little way to get some good acting moments out of your characters.

]]>http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?feed=rss2&p=22020Art & Story 193 – The Big Dollahttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2198
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2198#commentsThu, 21 Jul 2011 00:52:14 +0000Kevin Crosshttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2198[private]In this episode we hear from Chris Wilson of Creative Independence, discuss some of his ideas for a KickStarter campaign, and finish with more ideas on making those dolla bills as an independent creative.

]]>http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?feed=rss2&p=21980kickstarter,money[private]In this episode we hear from Chris Wilson of Creative Independence, discuss some of his ideas for a KickStarter campaign, and finish with more ideas on making those dolla bills as an independent creative. - Links mentioned in this episode: - [private]In this episode we hear from Chris Wilson of Creative Independence, discuss some of his ideas for a KickStarter campaign, and finish with more ideas on making those dolla bills as an independent creative.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Mark's KickStarter Campaign
Blurb
Lulu
Josh Ellingson
Ryan Estrada
Got Print
Jim Lujan
The Art & Story Theme is written and performed by Mike Gilmore & Mike Johnston of The Northwoods Improvisors.
Audio hosting for Art & Story is provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing
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Hotline: (262) 299-3729[/private]Mark Rudolph & Jerzy DrozdcleanMark of the Beast 123 – Work Hard, Play Hardhttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2195
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2195#commentsMon, 18 Jul 2011 17:56:01 +0000Markhttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2195Kevin and I talk about how socializing is a great way to sell yourself and get work!

]]>http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?feed=rss2&p=21950Thunder Punch Daily 135 – You + Contenthttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2192
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2192#commentsMon, 18 Jul 2011 05:38:54 +0000Jerzyhttp://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/?p=2192In an attempt to not talk about G+ in order to get links, I share a few thoughts that have occurred to me after a few weeks of using the service and watching success stories like Ryan Estrada’s experience there. You can add me to your circle by clicking here!